Philosopher Quotes

An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth.

Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing.

When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that inspired Bach and Beethoven, the architecture of painting that is inspiring Picasso as it inspired Velasquez, that it is the architecture of life itself that is the inspiration of the great poets and philosophers.

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.

Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

The best physician is also a philosopher.

No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.

The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a historian of religions, I am interested in those expressions.

I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.

The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.

I feel that we are all philosophers, and that those who describe themselves as a 'philosopher' simply do not have a day job to go to.

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

As a doctor I had no choice. As a philosopher I had too many.

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher

Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

If someone asks, ‘But what in the end is a philosopher?’ I would say ‘A philosopher is a human being who fights in theory.’

The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils." Said Diogenes, "Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.

A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.

Don't become a philosopher before you become rich.

If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it.

The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things.

Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings.

Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools.

A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?'

I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you'll get a philosopher.

Keep clear of psychiatrists unless you know that they are also Christians. Otherwise they start with the assumption that your religion is an illusion and try to 'cure' it: and this assumption they make not as professional psychologists but as amateur philosophers.

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.

...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage

I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

A true philosopher is married to wisdom; he needs no other bride.

I am not primarily an entrepreneurial businessman. I'm primarily a playboy philosopher.

The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.

No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.

Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first attempts in chemistry.

You ask a philosopher a question and after he or she has talked for a bit, you don't understand your question any more.

Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.